The Paddington Bear Experience review – the Marmalade Day jamboree must go on!
Visitors get stuck in when they enter the world of 32 Windsor Gardens, thanks to a merry immersive show boasting hands-on games and evocative design touches
June 2024
Hide the marmalade! Paddington Bear is back – and this time he’s gone immersive
The fluffy accident-prone favourite is donning his red wellies and duffle coat for a magical new ‘experience’ that is half-theatre and half-party. Our writer braces herself for a look behind the scenes
December 2023
Paws for applause: Paddington set to star in stage musical
After two hit movies, the children’s books hero will lead a new theatre production from the company behind Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
March 2023
London’s County Hall to host immersive Paddington Bear theatre show
The Paddington Bear Experience, a family-friendly show based on Michael Bond’s character, will be at the ex-GLC building on the South Bank
October 2022
Olga da Polga: Paddington Bear author’s much-loved guinea pig comes to the small screen
Michael Bond’s 1971 creation – inspired by his daughter’s pet – is starring in a new CBeebies series this autumn
September 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about long-distance relationships
The pleasures and perils of sustaining human connection while physically separated have inspired writers from Sally Rooney to Vladimir Nabokov
July 2019
Best of 2019
Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read
Children’s books explore hope, fear, failure and love. Katherine Rundell on how the best of them can ignite the imagination of all readers, whatever their age
November 2017
Paddington at St Paul's, last in classic children's series, due in 2018
Michael Bond’s final book about the accident-prone bear will be published next year on the anniversary of the author’s death
October 2017
Paddington 2 review – Hugh Grant steals the show in sweet-natured and funny sequel
Grant is on top form as a cravat-wearing villain who frames Paddington for theft in a follow-up that lives up to Michael Bond’s evergreen original
June 2017
Brief letters
A minute’s hard stare in honour of the man who gave us Paddington Bear
Michael Bond obituary
Paddington Bear author Michael Bond dies aged 91
Children's book roundup
Children’s books roundup: the best new picture books and novels
May 2017
Paddington 2: first trailer emerges from darkest Peru
Ben Whishaw reprises his role as the marmalade-sandwich-munching bear in the follow-up to the hit 2014 film
December 2016
My writing day
Michael Bond: ‘I’m at my desk by 9am. I even write on Christmas Day’
Notebook
I’ve seen the light – Paddington Bear as the one true way
Emma Brockes
October 2016
Books blog
Paddington Bear to star in TV cook show in new Michael Bond book
Paddington’s Finest Hour, a new title in the 90-year-old author’s much-loved series, brings fresh misadventures for the much loved children’s hero
April 2016
My family values
Michael Bond: my family values
The author of the Paddington Bear stories talks about his own idyllic childhood and how his father always wore his hat in the sea – much like Paddington
